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Contents:

• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• DIVERSE GROUP OF CI HAVE HIGHT RAT OF GAY HOEHOLDS
• AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SHARE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS THE U.S. 2021, BY AGE
• PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY RACE OF HOEHOLR
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

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DIVERSE GROUP OF CI HAVE HIGHT RAT OF GAY HOEHOLDS

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In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US. Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed. Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017.

For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996). 4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married. Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed.

AMERI IS CHANGG HOW VIEWS ACCEPTG GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE, NEW POLL REVEALS

The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed.

— Once known for sger Ana Bryant’s anti-gay rights mpaign and a ban on gay and lbian adoptns, Florida is now home to two metro areas wh among the hight ncentratns of gay and lbian upled hoeholds the U. Though they have some of the natn’s most visible LGBTQ muni, the vastns of their metro areas dilut the appearance of the metros on the list shows that tolerance isn’t limed to large astal ci, gay rights advot said. “You often thk of LGBTQ people large ci like San Francis, but we’re everywhere, ” said Jeremy LaMaster, executive director of FreeState Jtice, a Baltimore-based LGBTQ advocy anizatn for report foced on same-sex upl, both married and unmarried, and not gays and lbians who are sgle.

1 percent of upled hoeholds were same Florida, acceptance of LGBTQ muni has been driven at the lol level, wh passage of human rights ordanc, fast-growg populatns om all over the world and gay-iendly pani om the hospaly and entertament dtri, said Nade Smh, executive director of Equaly Florida, an LGBTQ advocy Orlando already had a visible gay muny wh out elected officials and workforc like Disney World wh large numbers of gays and lbians, the llective grief om the massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub 2016 helped ph that acceptance to more nservative rners of civic life such as lol church. That’s when Bryant, an early-1960s pop sger and brand ambassador for the Florida Cs Commissn, head a mpaign that led to the repeal of an ordance Miami-Da County prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn one of the earlit anized fights agast gay rights.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

To end s ban on gay and lbian adoptn when a urt led vlated equal protectn rights , Orlando and Phoenix have been among the metropolan areas wh the largt populatn growth recent years.

SHARE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS THE U.S. 2021, BY AGE

Phoenix’s general merocracy, which om beg a relatively young muny wh a nstant flux of new arrivals, has ma welg to gay and lbians, said Angela Hughey, print of ONE Communy, a bs aln that advot for cln and equaly. ”LaMaster, who lived New York Cy before movg to Baltimore, said the Maryland cy lacked the visible gay scene found a neighborhood like Chelsea New York Cy.

PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY RACE OF HOEHOLR

The percentage of Amerins who say they are satisfied wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people the untry has reached a new peak of 62%, acrdg to a poll released Wednday. Amerins' satisfactn wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people stood out the 2022 poll bee reached the hight level the natn has seen sce Gallup started trackg the trend 2001, though the peak is statistilly siar to 2016 levels. Poll rponnts also reported a greater level of satisfactn wh acceptance of gay and lbian people than any of the 20 other issu Gallup tracked this while satisfactn on many of the other issu creased this year, the numbers on gay and lbian dividuals grew substantially: In 2022, 62% of survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gays and lbians the natn, up om 55% 2021 and 56% 2020.

Jeff Jon, a senr edor at Gallup, told USA TODAY that the qutn shows whether gay and lbian people are "beg nsired not an outsir group but a normal, mastream group of people the U.

" Fifty-ne percent of Democratic survey rponnts said they were very or somewhat satisfied wh the acceptance of gay and lbian people, up om 48% 2021.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

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